Lost VM access from destroying ZFS

used1d

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Hello, I am looking for assistance with accessing my VMs now that I ran:
Code:
zpool destroy - f <MYZFS>

I thought all my VMs were on a separate SSD... So, I had a pfsense VM and I now can't access my workstation through that network after running zpool destroy.

I hooked up to the PVE machine and ran "qm list" and I see all of my VMs! But when I try running "qm start <VMID>" it says "storage <MYZFS> does not exist".

How can it see my VMs but not allow me to start them?? Any way I can get this going? Thank you.
 
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How can it see my VMs but not allow me to start them?
The virtual disks and the config file are stored in separate places. The configs are in /etc/pve, the storage they are referring to can be wherever.

Any way I can get this going?
I'd re-create/re-add the destroyed pool and then restore from a backup.
 
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